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Rising Up From the Ashes; A dazzling novel finds humanity in the Biafran war.(Half of the Yellow Sun)(Book review)
Byline: Amber Haq
Growing up in the Nigerian university town of Nsukka, Chimamanda Adichie was always aware of her country's brutal history of bloodshed. Though too young to have lived through the Biafran war, Adichie, 29, lost both her grandfathers to the ill-fated 1960s struggle by the Igbo to win independence from Nigeria. Her parents lost most of their possessions as well. Indeed, Adichie's life has been defined by the war. And now the conflict forms the backdrop of her bright and commanding new novel, "Half of a Yellow Sun" (433 pages. Knopf ). "It was always there," says Adichie. "And this is a book I knew I had to write."
Though the story takes us on a dark tour of the genocide and famine that caused more than a million deaths, "Half of a Yellow Sun"--Adichie's second novel--is above all a complex tale of human passions and flaws. Ugwu is an uneducated houseboy whose master, Odenigbo, an academic full of revolutionary zeal, calls him "my good man" and sends him to school; in return Ugwu pledges eternal allegiance to Master and Biafra. Olanna--Adichie's alter ego--is a cosmopolitan university professor who abandons her middle-class parents to live a life of idealism beside Odenigbo as ...
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